Chingford Hatch
Does anyone remember the Manor pub at the bottom of Friday Hill? It was replaced by the Wheelwrights some years later, there used to be a van selling teas and coffees to the bus drivers and conducters in their breaks at the bus terminus opposite. I think it was called Bill's cafe.
Next to that was a little bridge that went over the River Ching, turn left along the Sandy Path and you came to Chingford football club .. further along were two chocolate-box cottages complete with picket fences, at one of the cottages a lady used to sell us lollies. Next to the cottages were the stepping stones that crossed the River Ching and led you on to the common and golf course ... carry on across the golf links and you came to Woodford where all the 'posh' people lived.
Around there somewhere was a convent , which unfortunately became a prime target for 'scrumping' because of the fruit trees in the grounds - you had to climb over the wall first!
Horses used to be tethered on the common to graze and we learned how to ride them bare-back. We spent many hours on the common, building dens and playing 'Maid Marion and Robin Hood' ... we arrived home at dusk, filthy, dirty and hungry to a 'clip round the ear'ole' for getting dirty ...
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RE: RE: Chingford Hatch
Our family lived down the Hatch. I started school at Woodford Garden Junior School. We sed to walk down the common from school. My aunt had a tea shop next to the Manor Hotel as it was then my uncle had a farm up the lane, he was George Rochester. There was a pub, the Prince of Wales, also Jessops workshops, building carts etc and painting them . Some of the families were Martins, Ruffels, Metcalf, Young, Yorstens, Faints, Rumbles. My own family had a wet fish round. We lived old house opposite the Wesley chapel, great days. Then we moved to the Avenue and I went to Wellington Avenue School where I played cricket and football for the school. A Mr Dean was the head. Then we moved back down the Hatch to Manor Way, boy, we didn't have money but we had very good friends, we were scruffy and didn't do any harm. Warm memories.
Comment from Arthur Rochester on Monday, 8th February 2010.
RE: RE: Chingford Hatch
I moved to Chingford Hatch in 1946 from the east end of London. I was six years old. We moved into a brand new council house on Friday Hill. Friday Hill was in fact three roads. East West and the main road that ran between them. There were massive elm trees alongside the main road which we used to climb. The Manor Hotel used to be called The Old Dun Cow. They demolished it and built a new pub called it the Horseless Carriage. It had a railway carriage attached to it. Next door to the Prnce of Wales there used to be a small holding where the flats were built. Up Chingford lane there used to be a grand house that was demolished. The grounds were overgrown. I remember the huge stone lion that used to be there. They built new houses on the site. Jim Saville used to have a pig farm on Newgate Street. He grazed his horses on Chingford Common.
Comment from Henry Molyneux on Thursday, 27th May 2010.